St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-15

IiOT W IuStL SOuuQ Oh lu0 HuClQC coast. Dy
the northern ROUTE eXemptS from taxation
the right of way of the Northern Pacific rail-
way 400 feet WIDE with the track and neces-
sary grounds for station buildings, etc. Lam
not aware of any law eXempting other rail-
road property in the territory from taxation.
Mr.. Berry says they will be obliged of
course, to exempt the right of way and
property mentioned in the act of congress
of the Northern Pacific Railroad company.
but he thinks other roads who are not thus
protected should pay, and he proposes to
make them. if possible 1t is hard to get
an expression of majority of the legisla-
ture on this bill, but in the house the farmer
element prevails. and with one OF two
slightly modifying amendments it will
probably pass that body. But there is
council, and it is quite likely the bill will
get badly cut up in its hands, and may
never show up after reaching it.
THE MITCHELL COURT BILL.
into state of ebullition this afternoon by
moving that the Mitchell court removal bill
be taken from the hands of the Judiciary
committee and given to the house for con-
sideration. The bill which was introduced
into the house two weeks ago, and which
was worked through in diplomatic style by
BentZer, provides that the United States
court shall be removed from Yankton
to Mitchell and the judiciary COM
mittee Of the council has held on
to it this time without making move that
indicated they even intended to report it.
The Yankton champions got tired of this
proscrastination, and concluded to bring the
committee to time, and to this end Mr..
Smiths motion was made to day. Alex
Hughes was equal to the emergency. and
he moved that consideration of the bill be
indefinitely postponed. 1t looked as though
the council would be bathed in gore before
the question was settled. Grigsby
charged the judiciary committee
with holding important bills back of the
order in which they were presented for the
purpose OF legislation. and limited that the
bill in question was being used so in order
to build combination. 1t is fair to assume
that Mr. GrigSby entertainS no very great
affection for MitZer and Sullivan for the
bulldog pertinacity with which they Fought
against the house passing the Sioux Falls
bills over the veto of Acting Gouernor Nc
Cormack, and although he was member
of the Judiciary committee he hammered
Dodge and Hughes for neglecting
to attend to business in its regular order,
and stood by Smith in his motion. If the
bill could have been brought before the
council to-day it would have died a sudden
death, for the forces had been concentrated
against it II to s. A vote was taken on
Hughes motion to indefinitely postpone
consideration of the bill, and it was lost. A
vote was then taken on the original motion
made by Smith, and it passed on vote of
10 to 9. Consequently the bill
will be reported to the house to-
morrow, and unless its champions
can by some combination strengthen
their forces in the meantime it will be
placed on its passage Wednesday and will
go under Oh vote of II to II. In connec-
tion with this bill it may be well to outline
two or three combinations that we now
have in course OF construction which, if
everything works smoothly, will result in
beneiting Bismarck materially, In case
Mitchell fails to get the United
States court from Yankton, Redfeld is
putting in bid for it, and it is claimed that
rather than have Yankton retain the court
the Mitchell forces will combine with the
North and Redield faction and remove the
court 10 the latter place. There is another
question of considerable Importance before
the Legislature. in which the supreme court
is the bone OF contention. A bill has been
introduced in the house providing for the
removal OF the supreme court from Yank-
ton to Sioux Falls, and the doing away of
the supreme court at DeadWood
This bill has raised the hair of
the Deadwood people and they
swear if the Sioux Falls gang don't
draw off they will 60 into combination
with the Moth and pass bill abolishng
the supreme court at Yankton, and give
Bismarck the only term. Bismarck IS
working to this end. but it is claimed she
has an eye also on the United States court
at Yankton. There is great deal of ear
pulling at the Sheridan house nowadays,
and it is hard just at present to tell how the
matter will eliminate TEE AITCH.